Any pics / details from G.Massenburgs new control room ?

[Shaman]

[joeq]

Digidesign has a huge photo of it at AES. I took a photo of the photo. I was told the rods run from 3 feet to 1/100th of an inch- think about it- that sucks up six feet of the room's width!

The desk and racks are moveable and can be shoved against the wall if you want to track drums in there or something.

People who have been in it say it sounds amazing, great imaging from the monitors. Its not dead, but obviously there is no 'slap' .

[Shawn1272]

A good friend of mine got to sit in the room with George and hear some 5.1 mixes. He said it is the most acoustically neutral room ever. No room coloration. It's in Nashville. I think the rods go even higher in the ceiling. Crazy design.

[shangoe]

OMG!!!

[Lindell]

I'd get panic in that room and womit all over the "console" :-)

[Sender]

I was in Georges room when he had a grand opening about 2 months or so ago. It's very...... unique. The rods cover all the walls, and the walls are big, at least 30 feet. When I was in there, I could only stand in there for so long before becoming extremely uncomfortable. The fact that you can't see any flat surfaces besides the floor was making me a little queasy, but the varnish was still drying so it could have been that .

But however, it was a very very very cool idea for a room. He had a two day grand openeing (his new studio and GML HQ is at Blackbird Studios on Bransford Ave. in the Berry Hill district of Nashville). On the second day he had the console against a completely different wall! Apparently part of the design is that you can move the console against ANY wall, even caddy corner, and it will sound the same. So this is a very revolutionary design. He can also roll different consoles in and out of the room. He has an ICON, and these two are speculation, but I haven't heard anything positive, that he also has an Oxford and a small frame SSL 9J-or-K. I also heard that he is going to have an XLR patchbay too.

I have a friend that works for George. I'll see if I can go over and check it out and report some more information.

[kevinc]

That is simultaneously both the coolest and most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.

I started laughing when I saw the picture but I`m quite sure I wouldn`t be laughing at how amazing the room sounds.

I wonder if the guy who did that would give me a formula that`d work for my room.

I`d just build em` out of particle board or something but even than it`d get pricy super quick when your talking up to 3 feet extensions.


I wonder how many seperate extensions there are. Looks like 100 million or so. That would take me 6 years to build.

Screw it. I`ll just buy some realtraps.

[HDGuru]

What kind of mid-fields are those?

[C.Lambrechts]

Originally Posted by HDGuru

What kind of mid-fields are those?

looks like ATC's

[djui5]

Originally Posted by C.Lambrechts

looks like ATC's

[Ribbonmicguy]

It's the ATC speaker SCM150 if i'm not mistaken...

[kevinc]

Wow !

I was trying to figure out what the heck those beams were doing there and I noticed the glass/plexiglass/whatever things up near the ceiling.

A lot of stuff going on in this room.


I also see a FATSO at the top of the rack among all that GML gear which is cool. (for some reason)

[ImJohn]

That looks awesome. I wonder how they are attached? Hopefilly in individual modules for repairability. Like if some fell against it at an angle and a whole bunch of rods snapped off . . . bummer!!!

OK, so, taking it to the next step . . . . .ever seen those little science toys that are a small frame with like a 1000 pins evenly spaced and you push your hand or other 3d object up from underneath and you see a 3d rendering in pin heads on the top? For many millions of $ ( I'll assume ) you could do something similar to your walls and ceiling and have a computer that controlled each individual pin. Then you could dial in anything you wanted from live to dead. hmmmm . . . .

[max cooper]

Cool. Lookit all that GML gear. He must know somebody.

[C_F_H_13]

That's....that's....that's.....amazing.

Yet at the same time, I can't help but feel a little like..."why?".
I'll leave it at that...you know...since he's the man and everything.

[robmix]

Originally Posted by Lindell

I'd get panic in that room and womit all over the "console" :-)

It probably sounds great, but that's about the worst Feng Shui I've ever seen !!!!!

[Mind-Over-Midi]

Originally Posted by robmix

It probably sounds great, but that's about the worst Feng Shui I've ever seen !!!!!

I think it looks really cool.

[jdunn]

Anyone notice the Crane Song Flamingo? Damn, and I just sold mine too.

Oh, and the White Sox manager is likely to have a stroke spazzing out at the ref in the next series. Did you see [edit]Ozzie[edit] almost burst a blood vessel during the last series?

Ha ha.

[jonnyclueless]

Knowing George, I bet it'ss an amazing room. But it looks like a Chinese torture chamber!

[HDGuru]

You would have to wear some extremely dark sunglasses in that room at all times to be comfortable. The more I think about it, the more ludicrous it seems. Why not put the diffusers behind some acoustically transparent cloth walls? If your are gonna go to that extreme with diffusion you might as well try to make the place comfortable to work in. I keep expecting the cenobites from Hellraiser to pop out.
"We have such sights to show you!"

[mwagener]

Here is another picture of the room.

I was in there listening to a 5.1 recording/mix George had done, sounded amazing. I also listened to my HYDROGYN mixes and they sounded great in that room, so it looks like I'm not far off with those S3As. In any case, the imaging is unbelievable in George's room. Great concept.

[pan60]

wow
very cool
sorry HDGuru but no way would i cover that with cloth.

[juicemaster1500]

that's the most claustrophobic looking thing I've ever seen, five minutes in there and I'd kill myself (just kidding).

anybody know what the 'rods' are made of?

[De chromium cob]

Originally Posted by juicemaster1500

anybody know what the 'rods' are made of?

Maybe they're the infamous 'Inanimate Carbon Rods'....

[nukmusic]

Originally Posted by juicemaster1500

that's the most claustrophobic looking thing I've ever seen, five minutes in there and I'd kill myself (just kidding).

anybody know what the 'rods' are made of?

I was thinking the same dam thing. very crazy looking room. don't "Drink & Mix" .............u might fall and break a few of those

[jdunn]

At least I know what to do with those 4 RPG Skyline Diffusers I've got now. Hang 'em from the ceiling.

This room is steeped in diffusion. Much more diffusion than absorbtion from the looks of it, but I'm sure there is suitable absorbtion where needed.

Who designed it? Wow. I guess it's similar in design principle to the primitive root diffuser that the RPG Skyline is based on.

I keep thinking Borg Cube though.

[Jorg]

This studio design is only funny until someone trips and pokes his eye out at that wall.....U have been warned!!!

[joeq]

Originally Posted by juicemaster1500

that's the most claustrophobic looking thing I've ever seen, five minutes in there and I'd kill myself (just kidding).

anybody know what the 'rods' are made of?

I heard somebody say they were MDF

[natpub]

I don't know why so many audio engineers find the look of this room odd or particularly new. It looks almost exactly like hundreds of other anechoic rooms used since the 20's.

Here are a few:

[dirk]

Does anybody know the RT60 time of that room?